Abstract: Clippings, newspaper issues, pamphlets, leaflets, reports, cartoons, and photographs,
relating to miscellaneous aspects of twentieth-century Belgian history, and especially to
the destruction of the Library of the Universite catholique de Louvain during World War I
and its subsequent reconstruction.

Language:
English,
French and
Flemish.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Access Points

Universite catholique de Louvain (1835-1969)

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918--Belgium

Belgium

Belgium--History

Series Description

Boxes 1-2

SUBJECT FILE, 1890-1973.

Scope and Content Note

Miscellaneous printed matter related to Belgian political and social history. Also
includes material relating to the destruction of the library of the University of
Louvain, Belgium, during World War I, and its subsequent reconstruction.

Boxes 3-4

OVERSIZE FILE, 1914-1973.

Scope and Content Note

Four scrapbooks of clippings relating to the University of Louvain.

Container List

SUBJECT FILE, 1890-1973

General, University of Louvain

Box 1., Folder 1-2

General. Miscellaneous printed matter related to the destruction and rebuilding of the library at the University of Louvain,
1914-1973

Folder 3

Correspondence from the Rector of University of Louvain to the President of Stanford University, 1920

Folder 4-12

History. Pamphlets, leaflets, newspaper issues, reports, and cartoons, l890-l958, relating to Belgium in the two world wars,
relief activities there, politics, finance, socialism, labor and social problems, religion, and nationality problems in Belgium.
Includes an announcement, l890, issued by the Parti Ouvrier Belge, of the International Workmen's Congress to be held in Brussels
in l89l, and a pamphlet, l950, entitled
The Surrender of King Leopold, by Joseph P. Kennedy and James M. Landis. Mainly in French and Flemish.